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Ensign_Crab

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Ensign_Crab ,

Ads for replacements for items in your luggage they broke?

The whole experience sounds like an ad for Greyhound or Amtrak.

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Certainly soured a lot of people on Metallica.

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Breaking: Gostak distims doshes.

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"Ignore the most significant search terms and return pinterest spam."

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Pretty sure that ship sailed years ago.

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Initially? The DMCA.

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Not to mention the part where companies can just make reverse engineering and interoperability illegal by putting in one little encryption layer.

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The National Guard has discipline. Police have qualified immunity.

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The meme didn't mention either. Just disliking Biden.

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taps the sign

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but right now isn’t the time to be divisive

It's never the time, and all criticism is seen as divisive by people who can't abide critics.

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Grown ups know that life is full of hard choices and that it’s pretty damned rare that you get everything you want in any situation.

The last time centrists didn't get literally everything they wanted, they formed a PAC to get McCain elected.

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And yet everyone on lemmy who says anything at all in opposition to Biden's support for genocide is a Russian agent whose merest opinion to the contrary of centrist orthodoxy is singlehandedly going to cause Biden to lose.

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Ok but what no leftie has yet explained is who has asked them to like Biden?

Criticism of Biden on this platform is reliably interpreted as support for Trump.

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Primaries exist

Unless your state votes for a progressive in the previous presidential primary, like New Hampshire did.

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Once Republicans move us backwards, where we wind up is the new status quo that Democrats keep.

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You know there are other offices than president right?

You want a further left president, you’re going to need to show that a lot of people want a further left president, by having a lot of further left politicians in state and local offices.

I've seen the Democratic Party put its thumb on the scale for centrists at the congressional level: Henry Cuellar. I've seen them pull the rug out from under progressives who manage to win the primary, also at the congressional level: Michelle Vallejo.

Progressives cannot do as you describe when the party shuts them out at the lower levels as well.

Ensign_Crab ,

The meme does not mention voting. Why do centrists always make the leap from "dislike Biden" to "not vote" or "vote third party"?

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This precise sentiment has gotten me told off a few times now.

This precise sentiment is based on the assumption that disliking Biden means not voting for him anyway.

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I don’t forsee any president ever meeting your criteria.

Contentment does not produce change.

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After we fend off the Trump bullshit, then, yes, we have to make actual change to push us much further left.

That was the lie in 2020 and it didn't fucking happen. Now Biden is supporting genocide and we still gotta vote for him.

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That’s not true at all. Biden specifically has protected more public spaces and land, while Trump specifically attempted to lease / sell / make available more of it to corporate interests.

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2024/01/30/biden-administration-oil-drilling-permits-outpace-trump-ee-00138376

Net neutrality is being restored after it was rolled back under Ajit Pai.

I'll consider it an accomplishment when you can speak of it in the past tense.

We can be frustrated democrats don’t do enough, or aren’t further left, but to say they keep the status quo at the regressive place republicans want to take us is demonstrably wrong.

I live near the Texas/Mexico border. Democrats just recently adopted what is essentially Republican policy regarding border security. Republicans did the predictable thing and moved to the right, and now Republicans' previous position is Democrats' reasonable moderate stance.

When Trump said that he wasn't going to support a nationwide abortion ban and instead let the states decide, Democrats said he was just pretending to be moderate on the issue. And suddenly the patchwork of abortion bans is the moderate position.

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Is there ever going to be a time when it is acceptable to criticize Biden? Because I very much expect that there will always be some criterion that must first be met before criticism is permissable.

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So, when will it be the time, and what criticism is permitted without you considering it divisive?

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After the election.

You sure?

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Yes, there’s that pesky reading comprehension again.

You're deliberately mislabeling skepticism as stupidity.

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Yes, everyone to your left is all the way to your right.

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I love how the immediate assumption in response to criticism is that the critic must be voting third party, not voting, or voting for Trump.

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By all means critique. But also please vote for the furthest left candidate that can win in every election you can vote in.

Already do. Unfortunately, my party does shit like pull the funding from progressive candidates to make sure they can't win (Michelle Vallejo), so I only get to vote for centrists.

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Absolutely. But if we can flip Texas from right and alt right to centrist then we may actually get progressive candidates in other areas

We'll get as far as centrist and then the party will protect incumbents like Henry Cuellar. (Notice that they're not protecting Bowman because he's a progressive.)

Here’s to a better Texas (lifts shiner [but prefers one of the many smaller microbrews here]

If you ever find yourself in the Rio Grande Valley, I'd recommend the Padre Island Brewing Co.

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Did they mistake it for one of their own services people were using?

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I don't see pinterest on this list.

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So I didn't realize that the snaps logo is an origami bird.

"It was like a piece of self-opening origami, or a rosebud blooming into a rose in just a few seconds. Where just a few moments earlier there had been a smoothly curved black disk, there was now a bird. A bird, hovering there." - Douglas Adams, describing the Hitchhiker's Guide, Mk. II, from Mostly Harmless.

A bit on the nose there, Canonical.

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Oh, is that what we're gonna do today? We're gonna fight?

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XOrg is the final boss of legacy codebases.

Pretty sure the IRS still holds that title.

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Good lord, it's been 4 lustrum already? My, how the olympiads fly.

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Even cheap shitty irons have settings for synthetics.

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)

The Israeli military has reportedly implemented a facial recognition dragnet across the Gaza Strip, scanning ordinary Palestinians as they move throughout the ravaged territory, attempting to flee the ongoing bombardment and seeking sustenance for their families....

Ensign_Crab ,

So all you have to do in order to get useful results from google is to commit genocide?

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What horseshit.

"Biden should not be supporting genocide" is sufficient to get you called a Russian Chinese Republican trumpist tankie child shill bot right here on lemmy.

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No, that is quite the normal take.

In response to that take, I've been called a Russian, Chinese, a tankie, a trumpist, a child, a shill, a bot, a Republican, a moron, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. What conclusion am I to draw about those who are so upset that someone suggested that Biden should stop supporting genocide?

The one I draw is that they support genocide and don't want him to stop.

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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It's not like they ever properly implemented it in the first place.

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Don't sign up for HP Instant Amontillado.

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Which will be followed by letting companies pay to see who to retaliate against.

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For one, it's got Steve Jobs in it, and he's been dead since 2011.

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Fair enough

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I predicted this when lemmygrad got defederated. I said that neoliberals were gonna identify some other instance as the "tankie instance" and start campaigning to defederate from it.

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You're seriously trying to use AI as a source.

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God damn, I hope I'm not looking at the future of humanity.

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